Once Akbar and Birbal
passed through some farms while riding on their horses. They happened to pass
through a cabbage patch. Looking at the patch, Akbar said to Birbal, "What
a delightful vegetable the cabbage is. I like it very much." Birbal said,
"Huzoor, cabbage is the king of the vegetables." Akbar did not reply
to this, and they went on.
Another day, they
were riding past the same cabbage patches again. This time Akbar made a face,
and said, "This cabbage is such a tasteless vegetable. How people tolerate
it." Birbal replied, " Yes Huzoor, really it is difficult to even
look at such a tasteless vegetable." Akbar again listened to this and they
went on.
After a while the
king remembered something. He said to Birbal, "Birbal, I don't understand
you. Last time when we passed through this patch, you told that the cabbage was
the king of vegetable, and today you said that "It is even difficult to
look at such a tasteless vegetable. What do you mean by that?"
Birbal said bowing,
"Huzoor, I am your servant, not of cabbage."
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